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[quote=Anonymous]There would not be an overcrowding issue in DCPS would simply fill all its schools with teachers who want to teach as a career, not do it for one year. Filling schools with Teach for America teachers and creating a CHEAP, easy-to-control, revolving-door teacher program is what makes so many other school underperform. If DCPS were to give those classrooms in wards 7 and 8 a better student teacher ratios, better overall funding, so that there would be a human being there to pull out the many disruptive kids or help support the classroom...we'd have great schools all over the city, all kids would be walking to their neighborhood schools and we would not be talking about boundaries or choice. Equity needs to come from DCPS, only when they fully fund and place career teachers in underperforming schools will these schools get better and overcrowding would not be an issue....the issue is that DCPS only hires leaders whom they can 'control',  not a good basis to go by in picking principals and administrators, in turn, these principals and admins also do the same thing, they hire YES MAM teachers instead of who is RIGHT for the job. The whole system is built on the backs of insecure leaders making decisions based on fear and not on who is the BEST person for the job. [/quote]

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